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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...government made loans to the farmers and these loans were to be repaid after the harvest. In order to keep the price of grain from rising and falling, the government was to buy up the grain when the prices began to fall and to sell it when prices rose. Instead of utilizing forced labor to carry out all the government's public works, he proposed to pay for this labor and levied an income tax to provide the treasury with the necessary funds...
...Coal Act obliges the private owners of all coal mining royalties to sell these out to the State, as of July 1942, for a total compensation of ?66,450,000 ($332,250,000). This does not nationalize the coal industry (since private interests will continue to operate the mines, paying royalties to the State), but means a mighty stride toward Nationalization...
...capital stock is held by RFC, has lent on three bases: to U. S. exporters of agricultural products, to U. S. exporters whose capital has been pinched by foreign exchange restrictions (i. e., blocked marks in Germany), and, most important, to U. S. exporters who wish to sell capital goods to foreigners who lack cash. Sample deal took place year ago when China bought 20 locomotives and equipment with credits of $1,500,000, half supplied by the Export-Import Bank, half by American Locomotive Sales Corp. and Baldwin Locomotive Works. Despite the war, China has punctually met all payments...
...Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs are merely talismans for guiding his speculations. A Russian exile's hard-luck tales, for example, prompt him to bet on Lenin, short-sell Russian bonds at a huge profit...
Within a year, Transradio news was being barked over more than 90 stations. Soon it was clear that the upstart agency had upset the plans of the publishers and press associations to limit news broadcasting. U. P. and I. N. S. decided to sell their news to commercial radio sponsors; within A. P., agitation for a similar plan was begun...